The megamighty Fabrice Bellard just released an audio codec: TSAC. “TSAC compresses a 3.5 minute stereo song to a file of 192 KiB” bellard.org/tsac/

I dont know what to think of this 'restaking' thing

this Drake-Kendrick beef feels so fake, lengthy boring songs where they dont even sound pissed, is that all AI-generated? 1996 did better but hopefully it'll end better too

I write No Starch Press books just to get the glasses

crypto is cool but I love my Quest 3 too

good paper about bad crypto: 'Breaking E2EE in Nextcloud' (by Martin R. Albrecht M. Backendal D. Coppola kennyog) eprint.iacr.org/2024/546.pdf

Jeff Bezos emails Amazon exec

February 29, 2020

the Arc browser is pretty good, trying it on both macOS and Win11

L'université de Montpellier propose un Master qui vise à former au « Leadership vibratoire dans une approche de pédagogie quantique, afin d’œuvrer en pleine conscience ». Est-ce un de mes canulars ? Nein, c'est bien un M2 de SHS. Chaud !

BLAKE3 used in Tekken 8 🔥
(but not in Street Fighter 6 😭)

if you tokenize securities you should consider using the CMTAT token framework github.com/CMTA/CMTAT/, which has multiple advantages over other security tokens cmta.ch/news-articles/…

''Randar' is an exploit for Minecraft which uses LLL lattice reduction to crack the internal state of an incorrectly reused java.util.Random in the Minecraft server, then works backwards from that to locate other players currently loaded into the world.'
github.com/spawnmason/ran…

I'm sure someone already found the problem with this paper eprint.iacr.org/2024/626.pdf

got my account back!

nostarch.com/serious-crypto…

obligatory bragging post
blackhat.com/us-24/briefing…

In October'23, NIST will host the third workshop (in person) on Block Cipher Modes, particularly for approving wide encryption techniques. nist.gov/news-events/ev… Submission deadline: July 1,2023

Today in QEC on the arXiv: more weekend reading from Bombin and co
arxiv.org/abs/2303.08829
Using ZX calculus to unify different approaches to fault tolerance. Could this provide the new framework in which we design fault tolerant circuits?